Thanks. I've only done 2D material myself in the past and strangely, this is my FIRST 3D footage for which I made all the textures and Mattes myself. 95% of the textures were made just for this video. I had to obtain a book to quickly learn how to move the virtual "camera" and create tracking for the objects. Those 3D coils are my first attempt at real 3D modeling. The first Earth shot took nearly 3 days of non stop rendering. Even the Minelab logos were scratch-built because there was nothing online that was sharp enough to use.

We used two cameras. A 2004 Canon Powershot for the low quality lizard footage and all the still pictures. The smoother video footage towards the end was filmed with a dying 2004 Canon mini-Dv camera. Those tiny spots in the lower left quarter are damaged pixels from a laser pointer IR radiation leak mishap... and the camera battery was so old that we had to shoot very carefully in order to capture everything with just 7 minutes of battery life. We had to drive the whole way out there just to film that minute of footage to compliment the video. My biggest fear was that there would be no gold where we looked or that it would be snowing (it's subzero there right now). Everything else was shot in summer.